General Information

Author/Creator

Chiaureli, Mikhail, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Soviet Union : Goskinprom Gruzii, 1937.

Physical Description

VHS (77 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

Based on a 19th Georgian century epic, the film tells the story of Arsen, son of a poor villager who starts to fight the tsarist representatives in Georgia. He lives in the mountains and helps the poor against the armed Cossacks as well as speculative merchants. Caught once, having been betrayed, he manages to escape from prison with his friends' help and forgives the betrayer. Yet the same person kills Arsen when he attempts to start an armed uprising.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Arsen

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0188	Available	-	-